Entity location management using vehicle logistics information

• US 9,886,731 B2
• Filed: 12/22/2016
• Issued: 02/06/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 10/28/2015
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Ding, Hong Wei, Li, Hong Bo, Niu, Ganggang, Wang, Baohua, Xue, Yong Qing, Zhang, Bo
• Primary Examiner(s): Black, Thomas G
• Assistant Examiner(s): Nolan, Peter D
• Application Number:
  US15/387,761
• Publication Number:
  US 20170124491A1
• Time in Patent Office: 411 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 19/14 specially adapted for specific applications
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 19/42 Determining position
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/29 Geographical information databases
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/063 Operations research, analysis or management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0637 Strategic management or analysis, e.g. setting a goal or target of an organisation; Planning actions based on goals; Analysis or evaluation of effectiveness of goals
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/08 Logistics, e.g. warehousing, loading or distribution; Inventory or stock management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0833 Tracking
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0835 Relationships between shipper or supplier and carriers
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0838 Historical data
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/20 Monitoring the location of vehicles belonging to a group, e.g. fleet of vehicles, countable or determined number of vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/205 Indicating the location of the monitored vehicles as destination, e.g. accidents, stolen, rental

Abstract

Physical location information for a specified user is corrected according to vehicle location and trajectory analysis. Vehicles, such as delivery vehicles, produce physical location information for the vehicle during delivery events to the specified user and a surrounding physical area. The physical location information for the vehicle is accessed to correct erroneous physical location information for the specified user.

Claims

1. A computer system for improving strategic and operational planning by maintaining an updated customer location database, the computer system comprising:

a processor set; and

a computer readable storage medium;

wherein;

the processor set is structured, located, connected, and/or programmed to run program instructions stored on the computer readable storage medium; and

the program instructions include;

first program instructions programmed to identify a location data set including a proposed physical location of a first entity;

second program instructions programmed to receive a set of vehicle location data from a plurality of GPS-monitored service vehicles generated during traversal of a plurality of service routes including one or more road segments, each service route including a service stop at a known physical location of the first entity;

third program instructions programmed to, for each service vehicle of the plurality of GPS-monitored service vehicles, assign a confidence level based at least in part on a set of vehicle locations during the service stop, the confidence level corresponding to a degree to which the set of vehicle locations are at a same location;

fourth program instructions programmed to analyze a sub-set of vehicle location data corresponding to a set of service vehicles assigned a threshold confidence level to determine an apparent customer location;

fifth program instructions programmed to determine a deviation value based, at least in part, on a variation between the proposed physical location and the apparent customer location;

sixth program instructions programmed to, responsive to the deviation value exceeding a threshold deviation value, designate the location data set as an incorrect location data set;

seventh program instructions programmed to generate a corrected location data set based, at least in part, on the incorrect location data set and the apparent customer location; and

eighth program instructions programmed to verify the corrected location data set as being accurate by a new variation between the corrected location data set and a new vehicle location received from a vehicle assigned a threshold confidence level at the service stop not exceeding the threshold deviation value;

wherein;

the threshold deviation value is an allowable service stop variation according to a proximity of neighboring entities.